Jeremiah 17:27
Context17:27 But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through 1 the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”
Jeremiah 21:10
Context21:10 For I, the Lord, say that 2 I am determined not to deliver this city but to bring disaster on it. 3 It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will destroy it with fire.’” 4
Jeremiah 37:8-10
Context37:8 Then the Babylonian forces 5 will return. They will attack the city and will capture it and burn it down. 37:9 Moreover, I, the Lord, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonian forces 6 will go away and leave you alone. For they will not go away. 7 37:10 For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces 8 fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’” 9
Jeremiah 39:8
Context39:8 The Babylonians 10 burned down the royal palace, the temple of the Lord, and the people’s homes, 11 and they tore down the wall of Jerusalem. 12
Jeremiah 52:13
Context52:13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.
Hosea 8:14
Context8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces,
and Judah has built many fortified cities.
But I will send fire on their cities;
it will consume their royal citadels.
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[17:27] 1 tn Heb “carry loads on the Sabbath and bring [them] in through.” The translation treats the two verbs “carry” and “bring in” are an example of hendiadys (see the note on “through” in 17:21).
[21:10] 2 tn Heb “oracle of the
[21:10] 3 tn Heb “I have set my face against this city for evil [i.e., disaster] and not for good [i.e., well-being].” For the use of the idiom “set one’s face against/toward” see, e.g., usage in 1 Kgs 2:15; 2 Kgs 2:17; Jer 42:15, 17 and note the interesting interplay of usage in Jer 44:11-12.
[21:10] 4 tn Heb “he will burn it with fire.”
[37:8] 5 tn Heb “the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the rendering “Babylonian.” The word “forces” is supplied in the translation here for the sake of clarity.
[37:9] 6 tn Heb “the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the rendering “Babylonian.” The word “forces” is supplied in the translation here for the sake of clarity.
[37:9] 7 tn Heb “Thus says the
[37:10] 8 tn Heb “all the army of the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonian” in place of Chaldean see the study note on 21:4.
[37:10] 9 tn The length and complexity of this English sentence violates the more simple style that has been used to conform such sentences to contemporary English style. However, there does not seem to be any alternative that would enable a simpler style and still retain the causal and conditional connections that give this sentence the rhetorical force that it has in the original. The condition is, of course, purely hypothetical and the consequence a poetic exaggeration. The intent is to assure Zedekiah that there is absolutely no hope of the city being spared.
[39:8] 10 tn Heb “Chaldean.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
[39:8] 11 tc The reading here is based on an emendation following the parallels in Jer 52:13 and 2 Kgs 25:9. The Hebrew text here does not have “the temple of the
[39:8] 12 sn According to the parallels in 2 Kgs 25:8-9; Jer 52:12-13 this occurred almost a month after the wall was breached and Zedekiah’s failed escape. It took place under the direction of Nebuzaradan, the captain of the king’s special guard who is mentioned in the next verse.